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Everything comes around - people read the articles. It all gets cataloged and recorded. The problem with Baric is he showed zero class by throwing Shi under the bus. Mike Worobey was at that fun fest with Asher, Quay, Baric, Relman, Bloom and Chan that spawned the SCience ltr- I'm betting MW has some insights. I'm prety sure it's part of what is motivating MW right now.. [2021-11-17 18:52:19] [Eddie Holmes] Indeed. He signed a letter saying that China should be more transparent and is on a hidden grant that proposes to drop FCSs into Chinese bat viruses. [2021-11-19 07:47:51] [Robert Garry] If I'm not mistaken Baric is on Daszak's CRIED center - that must make for some interesting conversation. [2021-11-19 08:39:29] [Andrew Rambaut] Dumbest idea yet - it is mutating itself to death: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/11/18/national/delta-variant-self-destruction-theory/ [2021-11-19 08:44:30] [Kristian Andersen] Hah - I would like to believe that the GOP is mutating itself to death as well, but I fear it's wishful thinking. [2021-11-19 08:58:41] [Andrew Rambaut] I think someone is trying to use quasispecies theory at the the population level. [2021-11-19 09:00:04] [Robert Garry] Oh --- that's bad... [2021-11-19 13:06:52] [Eddie Holmes] Who did the Japan work? [2021-11-24 07:28:16] [Andrew Rambaut] This variant is completely insane - https://github.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation/issues/343 [2021-11-24 07:28:35] [Andrew Rambaut] Mutating itself to death, indeed [2021-11-24 07:29:12] [Andrew Rambaut] Check this bit... [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-11-24 07:30:04] [Andrew Rambaut] And a bit of FCS adjacent action... [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-11-24 07:30:22] [Andrew Rambaut] Plus 69/70 del and the nsp6 del [2021-11-24 07:36:36]